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Six students from De Montfort University have created a stellar 3D representation of 17th century London, as it existed before The Great Fire of 1666. The three-minute video provides a realistic animation of Tudor London, and particularly a section called Pudding Lane where the fire started. As Londonist notes, "Although most of the buildings are conjectural, the students used a realistic street pattern [taken from historical maps] and even included the hanging signs of genuine inns and businesses" mentioned in diaries from the period.

For their efforts, the De Montfort team was awarded first prize in the Off the Map contest, a competition run by The British Library and video game developers GameCity and Crytek.

Farva wrote:Not so much a map but a video but it’s pretty cool. Video of London pre great fire.

Farva wrote:Not so much a map but a video but it’s pretty cool. Video of London pre great fire.

Six students from De Montfort University have created a stellar 3D representation of 17th century London, as it existed before The Great Fire of 1666. The three-minute video provides a realistic animation of Tudor London, and particularly a section called Pudding Lane where the fire started. As Londonist notes, "Although most of the buildings are conjectural, the students used a realistic street pattern [taken from historical maps] and even included the hanging signs of genuine inns and businesses" mentioned in diaries from the period.

For their efforts, the De Montfort team was awarded first prize in the Off the Map contest, a competition run by The British Library and video game developers GameCity and Crytek.

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mdaclarke wrote:Reminds me of Ankh-Morpork

Enormous image: show

kiap wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:33 am Land use US:

Flyin Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 3:58 pm

kiap wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:33 am Land use US:

Missing Alaska and Hawaii.

Lacrobat wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 5:05 pm The oldest continuously-operated restaurants in the world. Well-played The Gables in Russell, NZ:

puku wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 4:13 pm

Flyin Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 3:58 pm

kiap wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:33 am Land use US:

Missing Alaska and Hawaii.

And Iowa, Minnesota and at least half of Nebraska are cropland not pasture/range/cow. There are other issues too.

Flyin Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 7:50 pm

puku wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 4:13 pm

Flyin Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 3:58 pm

kiap wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:33 am Land use US:

Missing Alaska and Hawaii.

And Iowa, Minnesota and at least half of Nebraska are cropland not pasture/range/cow. There are other issues too.

Well the map is taking the lower 48's land mass and making a map of it based on percentage use. It doesn't matter where the bits of it are as the bits have little geographical meaning. But removing Alaska which is the largest state means in reality that every section on the map should be larger than what is shown (i.e. take the size of everything shown and multiply it by 1.21). The problem probably has to deal with scaling because maps showing the country plus Alaska and Hawaii, Alaska is always scaled significantly downward in size.

Nolanator wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:02 am Mexican billionaires seem to have the most indivicual wealth by far.

Bunch of El Chapo's mates?

ZappaMan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:35 pm

Nolanator wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:02 am Mexican billionaires seem to have the most indivicual wealth by far.

Bunch of El Chapo's mates?

Carlos Slim would be worth $50bn+ so would distort the Mexican figures somewhat.

Nolanator wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:02 am Mexican billionaires seem to have the most indivicual wealth by far.

Bunch of El Chapo's mates?

The Maps Descriptive of London Poverty are perhaps the most distinctive product of Charles Booth's Inquiry into Life and Labour In London (1886 - 1903). An early example of social cartography, each street is coloured to indicate the income and social class of its inhabitants.

Average female breast size in Europe based on cup size

Taranaki Snapper wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:07 am

Average female breast size in Europe based on cup size

Taranaki Snapper wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 12:16 pm https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/

Light pollution map is exactly as promised, and works like Google Earth: scroll, zoom and bring up various different datasets and legends to make sense of it all. I'm always stuck by that dead-straight transition between light and dark in North America, from Winnipeg to Austin. That mystery metropolis in North Dakota? Oilfields!

Taranaki Snapper wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:35 am

Light pollution map is exactly as promised, and works like Google Earth: scroll, zoom and bring up various different datasets and legends to make sense of it all. I'm always stuck by that dead-straight transition between light and dark in North America, from Winnipeg to Austin. That mystery metropolis in North Dakota? Oilfields!

https://boingboing.net/2021/04/23/light ... world.html
https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoo ... FFFFFFFFFF

35 History Maps That Will Make You See The World In A Whole New Light

Farva wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:57 am

Rinkals wrote:

Lacrobat wrote:FYI:

Eh?

You can drink tap water in most of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.

You can drink tap water almost anywhere. It doesnt mean you should!

Taranaki Snapper wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:24 am

The Maps Descriptive of London Poverty are perhaps the most distinctive product of Charles Booth's Inquiry into Life and Labour In London (1886 - 1903). An early example of social cartography, each street is coloured to indicate the income and social class of its inhabitants.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrar ... 8449873093

Favorite Maps of 2021

Over on Cartoblography, Kenneth Field has published his annual look at his favorite maps from the past year. His list includes Stamen 2020 Headquarters by Catalina Plé, 500,000 lives lost by NBC News, Population change by US state since 2010 by Adrian Blanco and Tim Meko at The Washington Post, Global Glacier Loss by Niko Kommenda, San Marino Bus Map by Jug Cerovic, It’s Coming Home by Dan, Algonquin Canoe Trip by Warren Davison, Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony Drone Globe, Atlas of the Invisible by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti, St. Vincent Island by Aaron Koelker, Arctic Warming by Greg Fiske, The Lost Treasures of Isla del Coco by Jakob Listabarth, and Murky Waters by Andrew Douglas Clifford.

Taranaki Snapper wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:07 am

Average female breast size in Europe based on cup size